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Fort Wayne, Indiana

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The city of Fort Wayne is located in Allen County and is the county seat.

Typical abbreviation for Fort Wayne: Ft. Wayne (or less commonly used: Frt. Wayne)

Fort Wayne is 230 feet [70.1 m] above sea level.<1>

Time Zone: Fort Wayne lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

Michigan has a community that is also named Fort Wayne.

At the time of the 2000 Census, Fort Wayne had a population of 205,727 people<2> (or 61.83% of the total population of Allen County). The population of Fort Wayne represented 3.38% of the total of Indiana, making it the state's 2nd most populous community.

From the Census Estimates for 2008, Fort Wayne had a population of 251,591 people. This is an increase of 22.29% since the 2000 Census.

The following table shows the recent changes in population. For the years after 2000, the population counts are estimated. More information can be found on the Census Page for Fort Wayne.

YearPopulationChange
Since 2000
Year-to-Year Change
2008251,591+22.29%+0.36% since 2007
2007250,681+21.85%+0.78% since 2006
2006248,737+20.91%+0.59% since 2005
2005247,276+20.2% 
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2000205,727The Last Census

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

 Community DirectionDistance<3>2008
Population
Change
Since 2000
 Auburn   N19 mi [30.58 km]13,0267.88% increase
 Avilla   N19 mi [30.58 km]2,41717.96% increase
 Churubusco   NW13 mi [20.92 km]1,7786.72% increase
 Columbia City   W18 mi [28.97 km]8,28317.04% increase
 Garrett   N18 mi [28.97 km]5,6812.1% decrease
 Huntertown   N8 mi [12.87 km]2,15821.85% increase

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Fort Wayne.

Websites for Fort Wayne

Official Website:   www.ci.ft-wayne.in.us/
   
Chamber of Commerce:   www.fwchamber.org/
Junior League:   jlfw.org/

If you know of a local history or genealogy society for either Fort Wayne or Allen County, would you please send us the URL for their website? We would like to add their link to our Gazetteer. To contact us, please visit our Feedback Page.




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For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

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If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).



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The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Fort Wayne:

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Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Fort Wayne? Please visit the Map Page for Fort Wayne.


Footnotes

<1>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Fort Wayne - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others.

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<2>Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Fort Wayne.

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<3>Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Fort Wayne and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance.

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<4>All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint.

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